Asiaing.com (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
The Wharton School is the business school of University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was established in 1881 through a donation of Joseph Wharton, making it the world's first collegiate business school.
Nature Publishing Group (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Stanley N. Cohen was born in 1935. He attended college at Rutgers University, New Jersey, and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Pennsylvania, USA. He joined the faculty at Stanford University, California, in 1968, where he became interested in the problem of
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
A fallen wire in a SEPTA service tunnel set off sparks and smoke this morning, injuring six trolley passengers, including one SEPTA employee, who were treated at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania for minor injuries.
Newmark's Door (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Damn, It Feels Good to be a Banker. About Wharton: "The fact it is attached to the University of Pennsylvania is [its] biggest and most tragic downfall . . . being lumped together with such a big, ugly mass of...
Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
Matthew J. Kifer is the fourth sports information director at California University of Pennsylvania. He replaces Matthew Hannaford, who held the interim SID position since last January.
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
By studying medication orders that are withdrawn ("discontinued") by physicians within 45 minutes of their origination, researchers at The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have demonstrated a systematic and efficient method of identifying prescribing errors.
Physorg (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
By studying medication orders that are withdrawn ("discontinued") by physicians within 45 minutes of their origination, researchers at The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have demonstrated a systematic and efficient method of identifying prescribing errors. The method, they say, has value to screen for medication errors and as a teaching tool for physicians and physicians-in-training....
Physorg (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have shown that mutations in two proteins associated with familial Alzheimer's disease disrupt the flow of calcium ions within neurons. The two proteins, called PS1 and PS2 (presenilin 1 and 2), interact with a calcium release channel in an intracellular cell compartment.
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have shown that mutations in two proteins associated with familial Alzheimer's disease disrupt the flow of calcium ions within neurons. The two proteins, called PS1 and PS2 (presenilin 1 and 2), interact with a calcium release channel in an intracellular cell compartment.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
In a lab at the University of Pennsylvania, a group of mutant fruit flies is pulling off a feat that many a college student would envy - getting by with little or no sleep.
The Volokh Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
This fall, I will be a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, teaching Property and a seminar on Federalism. Thanks to the Law School's generosity in providing me...
kitchen table math, the sequel (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
This week's Daily Pennsylvanian , the student newspaper at the University of Pennsylvania, reports on a five-year, $10 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences to Penn and several other institutions to establish a 21st Century Center for Cognition and Science Instruction. According to the Daily Pennsylvanian , the consortium will collaborate with "over 200...
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Growing up in Montgomery County, graduating summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania and getting a law degree from Harvard, Alan M. Shusterman had been called brilliant but didn't feel that great. He got a job in corporate law with a large Boston firm, but that didn't work for him, eit...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
A computer hacker known online as AKILL was fined more than $11,000 in New Zealand yesterday for breaking into the University of Pennsylvania computer network in 2006, causing the system to crash.
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
The St. Louis Cardinals fan run over by a car last week after a Cards-Phillies game remains in critical condition at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, officials said today.
